But privatisation is not the main problem

The coalition government's bureaucratic changes to the NHS haven't been seen as a great success.

The Tories have accelerated private involvement in the NHS since the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

The Westminster government has been criticized for letting NHS privatisation run with little oversight.

Into The Red, a Nuffield Trust report into NHS funding published earlier this year, said: "There is very little information on the number or nature of the contracts that commissioners are tendering or agreeing with non-NHS bodies."

That's something that Alex Salmond would be able to change in Scotland.

And Salmond doesn't have an answer for an ageing population either

But Salmond can't reverse the trend of an ageing population - and that by far that is the biggest stress on the NHS. With people living longer and suffering many more diseases in the final years of their lives, the strain on the health service has increased drastically.

Independence won't make the Scottish population any younger or healthier. Fixing the NHS is something that policy-makers north and south of the border are going to have to make some really tough decisions about. And cough up more funding for.